so many boxes today okay what is all this crap
it's razer's new huntsman mini keyboard from their huntsman line now they have a
60 keyboard joining the line a 60 keyboard is a small keyboard it has no
numpad no function row no navigation keys like home and end no arrow keys
it's just the alphanumerics pretty cool pretty tiny let's look at it but what's
this other crap i have some extra keycaps we'll get to those in a bit and
some special boxes i haven't even opened these i can only guess what's inside and
i can also further guess that this is not available to the public so is it
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this is uh just a wooden box some kind of metal hinges there's a
button on the front oh all right
okay cool it is a keyboard and it's personalized
how do i get you out of here oh this little pull tab maybe
it's a ShortCircuit on it that is cool again i'm pretty sure you will not be
able to get this definitely can't get a ShortCircuit one but here's the keyboard what else we have in this box
dominate on a different scale ha cute writing our first 60 keyboard available
in razer clicky or improved linear optical switches improved experiencing
lightning fast actuation in our most compact form factor yet for gamers by
gamers razer also comes with
a bag which undoubtedly holds the usbc
cable there it is it has a nice razer cable
tie flexible multiple steps
usbc on that side usb a on that side and it's white
matches the keyboard now what do we have in our other wood box
huh is it a black one huh yes it is okay cool let's see if i
can do this trick twice oh this one actually just comes out like normal
this is the clicky one
black cable black cable tie and even black little what do you call these hats
condoms wait a second whoa that's sweet there's actually little grooves
in this channel that correspond to female grooves on the plug
so that there's no risk of the cable getting yanked in this direction which
would bend
bend the end that is just a nice step for longevity
and durability things that razer has not traditionally been known for so good for
them for trying to rebuild their brand in that respect here they are
but that's not really a complete unboxing because that's not the box you guys are gonna get so why don't we just
rip through here really quickly this is the clicky option in this box which they
call purple their linears are also called red cherry style
oh that really hurt this key is too girthy
andy
okay inside this much more simple box your keyboard actually comes with
plastic around it shrink wrap
and again the black one is clicky now the
mercury or white color and the black color are each available with either the
clicky or linear you can mix and match it's just by coincidence that both my
blacks are clicky look at all these keyboards and we also
have yeah there's the cable for that one and
a little bag of books here you've got a great device in your hands
complete with a two year limited warranty
serial number oh look at that on the back that's nice it says four gamers by
gamers over and over again like some kind of bart simpson chalkboard
punishment that's just cool it's on the bottom it's like when the inside of your
clothes like the inside of your hood has a nice neat pattern that you don't see that often you get that one's like dress
shirts sometimes by the cups or in the collar and it's just a nice touch even
though it's seldom seen there's stands six for six degree and nine degree tilt
configurations i mean they're both nice i would
probably go black but it depends on your setup if you have a white case or a white mouse already or your monitor yeah
they're both nice so
where to begin how about the feel how about the feel
now these are a lot quieter than previous huntsman keyboards i understand
that they actually made an adjustment to the switch
where they basically underneath that plus sign
that you see there there's a like column a tube inside of that tube they place
dampeners they used to have like a this metallic kind of ping that had this
kind of roll off on it you know when keyboards were like
they used to have that it's not so bad anymore so the linear switches require 40
grams of force to actuate and they just bottom out of course because they're
linear there's no tactile bump or anything in them and these are optical
switches they say that they're a little bit faster they have fewer mechanical
moving parts so they should have higher durability be more consistent the issue
with it though is that these switches could come out you still couldn't pop in
any other switches other than just i guess maybe the linears like whatever
that razor provides you know whereas if you just got a normal mechanical
keyboard there's just myriad switches available
thousands of them all different types you can really get into it with this you're kind of just married to what you
get if what you get is good then stay married to it whatever
these keys are pretty consistent and then on the clicky side
these sound okay not not the best sound i've ever
these only take 45 grams of actuation force
this is still a gaming keyboard you really don't have to press very far i
feel like i could get my shots off pretty immediately all right so why get a 60 percenter two
reasons really either aesthetics if you have a really clean setup you want
everything to be minimal and the second reason to get a 60 is if you are the
type of person who has a low sensitivity mouse and you're playing shooters and
you just need a lot of space for your mouse ARM to whip around it can be nice
to not have that extra stuff on your keyboard so you don't have to reach as
far you have more desk real estate and you don't get as much shoulder strain
actually a third reason is portability it's way easier to put a 60 percenter
into your backpack and go to a lan party or an esports tournament than it is a
full-size keyboard productivity wise it sucks not having a
numpad for me it sucks using second functions but razer says you lose no
functionality on this keyboard because all the second functions are available
on a secondary layer and you can see where they are by looking at the side
printed legend on these keys i want to plug this in because i want to see if
the light shines through there uh and no it looks like the side
printed legend is just it's just on there to be fair i don't think i've ever
seen secondary functions be lit up so now you can see the light is shining
through these other keys and that is because these are double shot injected
which means that the black area you see here is one layer of plastic and it
would have had a hole in it for the words and then there's a second layer of
plastic which is white you can see it therefore you can never scratch that off
there's no way to scratch this off it's impossible you'll wear through your
fingers first another thing is that these are pbt plastic and so they're not
going to get shiny you know when you use a keyboard for a long time and you don't
wash your hands between eating and gaming what happens is the plastic
degrades and you get this like shiny look on the most commonly used
keys that's not gonna happen to these so that's nice i guess it's a good time to talk about
these other sold separately key caps that we got here
they're mostly just different colors these are black razor green mercury
white and quartz pink so if you wanted
to have a black chassis with white keycaps
or vice versa or if you wanted to just what i think looks cool just have a
certain number of them swapped out so you kind of have like a half and half
look like panda style i think that can look really cool striking
is this really necessary oh yeah all like little stabilizers and
oh man they're like vacuum sealed in here it's like their tofu or something
see the issue with these is that they don't have the side printing for your
secondary functions i mean i guess that's kind of understandable and for 30
bucks this is actually a decent value oh and you get a keycap removal tool so wow
i don't know how well the quartz is gonna go with this black they're kind of
opposite pallets
yeah that looks pretty bad i think i should have put it on let's
try it on the white one yeah this is already so much better
ah that's nice it's cute
when you have the colored keycaps like this though i feel like you're a little more limited with what RGB colors you
can choose because some colors they just don't look great when they're shining through
and so you might want to just restrict yourself to something that
looks good with the color like i don't feel like the red going through here looks very
good so like basically any keyboard you can get it has n key rollover it's got
anti-ghosting uh it actually despite being at 60
it has a standard bottom row which is nice sometimes these get kind of screwed
up and things are moved around this is standard uh it also has a game mode so that your
Windows key won't come up in games uh there's even media keys on the secondary
row the one thing that you can't do on board despite being able to have five
keyboard profiles that you can save on device and despite there being some
default RGB settings as you saw me cycle through on device there is no ability
for you to create a new RGB profile and then save that to your device and take
it somewhere you can make your own custom RGB profile but you have to do
that in razer's synapse software and then it'll save to your account on
sydnaps so if i brought this keyboard somewhere else i would have to plug it into that machine get synapse on that
machine log in and then i could have my profile
again on this but uh the build quality is pretty nice it's got an aluminum
faceplate on it here and you know you don't really get that much deck flex
with these as is so it feels pretty stable it's not as fat as that candy bar
keyboard i had a little while ago on ShortCircuit and for weight we're
looking at 430-ish grams which is like that's fine
it's pretty average in terms of weight i wouldn't call it heavy for its size
or really too light it's just pretty it's kind of normal pricing wise kind of
weird 120 dollars for the clicky version making it the
cheapest in the huntsman lineup however an extra 10
for the presently unavailable linear version weird that there's a
price difference i think it's because they just revamped the linear switches from their previous iterations so maybe
they had to cover some r d cost or something there but 10 bucks difference
not the cheapest keyboard out there but it's razer so what did you expect it's
not a groundbreaking device but um it's cool
you'll probably like it i don't know if they're going to last in the long term we'll have to wait and see
but you get a 2-year warranty so whatever if you're a fan of razer if you
want to use your razer chroma lighting effects with all
your other devices and your supported games and you want a 60 keyboard
then this is the one to go for so thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you like
this video you might like our other previous review of the candy bar
keyboard that came with a cool kind of diy kit and that is a good foot in the
door for enthusiast keyboards if you want something that's plug and play then
this is the way to go bye